On Tuesday, the Pskov Province published the protocol of the interrogation of Danila Veselov, who was arrested on charges of attempted murder of journalist Oleg Kashin. In the protocol, which is dated June 24, 2015, Veselov names the manager of Zaslon JSC Alexander Gorbunov as the organizer of the crime, and the governor of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak as the customer.

The Moscow City Court extended until January 15 the arrest period for the former leader of the banned Movement against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) and “Russians” Alexander Belov (Potkin), accused of creating an extremist organization and money laundering, RAPSI reported on Tuesday.

The Kaliningrad Regional Court rejected the appeals of those convicted in the case of hoisting the German flag on the building of the garage of the FSB directorate in Kaliningrad, as well as the submission of the prosecutor's office, but excluded the motive of hatred against veterans from the verdict. “The court changed the sentence, excluded hatred towards veterans and social groups, and left the rest unchanged.

The Leninsky District Court of Chelyabinsk partially satisfied the claim of the head of IK-1 in Kopeysk, Alexey Titov, against Oksana Trufanova, a member of the Chelyabinsk Region PSC, and ordered her to pay 20 thousand rubles as compensation for moral damage. Trufanova will also have to write on her blog a refutation of the post about the head of the colony, which became the reason for going to court, the defendant’s lawyer Andrei Lepekhin told Mediazona.

Nine lawsuits for the eviction of residents of a village on the island of Valaam were filed in the city court of Sortavala (Karelia). The plaintiff is the company SENT LLC, established by the Valaam Stavropegial Monastery and engaged in the management of the monastery property. Sergei Grigoriev, a deputy of the City Council of the city of Sortavala, of which the island of Valaam is part, reported this to Mediazona. The information to Mediazona was confirmed in the Sortavala court.

Deputy Prosecutor General Yuri Ponomarev approved the indictment in the case of Oleg Kinyev, a former deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma. He is accused of organizing the murder of a pensioner who came to his public reception. As writes Interfax-Ural with reference to the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office in the Urals Federal District, an elderly woman came to see the deputy and asked for help with moving to a nursing home.

A resident of the Rostov region beat a pensioner with a hammer, stole 500 rubles and burned her house, and left the crime scene in a car that belonged to the murdered woman, reports the regional Investigative Committee. After extinguishing a fire in the Primiussky farm, Kuibyshev district, the remains of a 58-year-old woman were discovered; a criminal case was opened on this fact under part one of Article 105 (murder).

Former employee of the prosecutor's office of the Vladimir region, Alexander Skorlupin, was accused of giving deliberately false testimony in a criminal case regarding a fatal accident involving regional Duma deputy Sergei Kuryshev. The accident, in which Kuryshev’s Range Rover collided with the Oka, occurred in the spring of 2014 near the village of Melekhovo. Investigators found out that the deputy was drunk, and Skorlupin was sitting next to him, in the passenger seat, reports Interfax .

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Omsk sentenced the former Minister of Education of the Omsk Region, Sergei Alekseev, to 1 year and 6 months in prison. The ex-official was found guilty of illegally selling a plot of land and was taken into custody in the courtroom.

In the Moscow region, the juvenile affairs inspector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chekhov district, violating traffic rules, hit a man at a pedestrian crossing, Investigative Committee reports. “According to the investigation, on the evening of September 3, 2015, a police officer, driving an Opel car, was driving along a highway in the city of Chekhov.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan on Tuesday refused to cancel the suspended sentence and clear the criminal record of former police major Sergei Tolstykh, who threatened a woman in the presence of her young child and tortured her with a pencil at the police station.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria recognized as legal the sentence of criminal investigation operative of the Chegem district police department Asker Abidov, who was sentenced to 4 years in a general regime colony for beating three teenagers. The decision of the appellate court was reported on Tuesday by “Public Verdict” with reference to the victims’ lawyer Eva Chanieva.

The reason for the conflict, which escalated into a mass brawl and shootout in a hotel in the center of St. Petersburg, was a toast to the criminal investigation made by police visitors, which the company at the next table did not like. According to Fontanka.Ru, at the table in the lobby bar of the Landorff Hotel there were two operatives from the Central District, one operative from the Admiralteysky District and a former employee of the State Drug Control Service.

In the Sakhalin region, the case of juvenile affairs inspector Irina Melenchuk, who returned two children to the family of parents who abused alcohol, was brought to court. A case was opened against the police officer after one of the children returned to their parents - a one-year-old girl - was killed by a drunken father.

Two residents of Nizhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk region, are accused of illegally imprisoning a man with whom they drank alcohol in an apartment in Nizhny Tagil. They beat the prisoner, fed him dog food for several days, and tried to get a loan on his passport. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee, two men arrived from Nizhnyaya Tura to Nizhny Tagil in August 2015. They rented two apartments in a house on Gazetnaya Street.